Ashley Bardhan
Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in gam🔴es for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's 🍸usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.
Latest articles by Ashley Bardhan
Imagine Infinity Nikki with a bazooka loaded with love rockets and you get this Doom Eternal-flavored shooter that’s all about killing with kindness – and guns
News Incolatus: Don't Stop, Girlypopꦺ is the kind of FPS I've been looking ☂for
Diablo 4 Season 7 faces new competition: the original Diablo, which is coming to Xbox Game Pass just a week earlier
News Old is gold
The Metroidvania gods have spoken and answered my prayers with this horror game that looks like Majora's Mask if it let you play as an onion-headed freak
News The Tower Of Tears will have a demo out soon
Stellar Blade was such a hit that its dev gave all employees a PS5 Pro and a roughly $3,400 bonus, and this horny action RPG isn't even on PC yet
News Developer Shift Up is winning
Horror game legend Ikumi Nakamura swaps her love of gore for true romance by helping dev use custom sidequest as real-life proposal: "Moments like this remind me how lucky I am"
News Romance isn't dead!
Fallout creator Tim Cain reveals two playthroughs key to the RPG's history: his low-Int hero named Potato, and a mass-murderer who made them check "the entire game" again
News Fallout wouldn't be the same without Potato
"Action RPGs kind of outsell classic RPGs": Fallout OG Tim Cain says AAA RPGs default to violence because it sells, so support non-violent options when you get 'em
News Better stock up on Animal Crossing DLC
The Witcher 4 NPCs will offer a "more immersive experience" than other CD Projekt games: "We are trying to push the bar here"
News Are you ready to be immersed?
The Witcher 4 has "completely new regions" and monsters, including one the game director calls a "tricky, tricky bastard" that "plays with your own fears"
News Leave us alone, Bauk!
2025 kicks off with another live service death as Friday the 13th: The Game fans sadly twerk on its grave
News Doꦺn't cry because it's o🌜ver, smile because Jason has an ax
Minecraft experts dedicate 3 years to building Breath of the Wild's entire open-world map out of blocks: "I put everything else aside"
News Blood, sweat, and blocks
Silent Hill 2 Remake's reinvention of its most underrated character means so much more in 2024
Year in Review Year in Rꦚev𒈔iew | Angela is better than she's ever been
Hideo Kojima offers another Death Stranding 2 update and a demonstration of his unique PS5 controller technique: "Building the game"
News Cool controller, Kojima
Palworld drops a massive update that further distances the survival game from Pokemon following the Nintendo lawsuit, and fans couldn't be more proud: "Justice for Palworld"
News "Nintendo is going to be fuming"
The Witcher 4 devs say romance will "absolutely" be a part of the RPG, it just has to be "super compelling and very meaningful"
News It's official, Ciri is single and available
Oh thank goodness, the Fortnite rumors are true and Mariah Carey is here as a... 10-foot-tall Christmas goddess from space?
News She's here to save us
Bloober's new sci-fi horror game looks like Silent Hill 2 meets Alien, the retrofuturistic gorefest I've always dreamed of
News Cronos: Th⭕e New D𝔉awn might be the best way to follow up Silent Hill 2
The Witcher 3's Geralt actor spent just an hour delivering the most chilling voice lines for the baddest bonehead in Baldur’s Gate 3: "I was just like, 'yeah, please, yes!'"
News Bhaal would be no one without Doug Cockle
Massive Stalker 2 patch starts chipping away at the notoriously glitchy game's worst problems, including over 80 cutscene problems and nearly 2,000 more bugs
News Stalker 2 is getting a makeover
Hideo Kojima originally had "no plans" for a character like Metal Gear Solid's Cyborg Ninja until Yoji Shinkawa's art had him saying "hell yeah, a ninja cyborg!"
News Let us cherish Cyborg Ninja
Final Fantasy 7's original director suggests Cloud should be proud of the JRPG's infamous love triangle: "What a lucky guy"
News Having two girlfriends is both a gift and 💫a curse
South of Midnight’s nasty-looking, dinosaur-sized alligator boss already has the potential to become my favorite villain ever
News That's one big alligator
XDefiant just put out an absolutely massive patch featuring 3 new factions and more for a game you can't even download now
News Ubisoft's FPS takes its last breath
